The Walt Disney Studios reached a major milestone today as 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. James Cameron continues to redefine commercial success; with this latest entry, the Avatar series becomes one of the rarest triple-threat franchises in history, with every installment having surpassed $1 billion.
This achievement marks the third Disney-led release to hit the billion-dollar ceiling in 2025, following the success of Zootopia 2 and Lilo & Stitch, starring Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, and Chris Sanders, which previously reached the billion-dollar mark, alongside the 2024 hits, Disney’s animated Inside Out 2 and Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
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The 2023 summer smash Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, propelled Greta Gerwig into the rankings as the second female director to break global and US Box Office Records. Director Jennifer Lee achieved this milestone for Disney’s Frozen II (2019,) co-directing alongside Chris Buck.
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Among the elite list of 60 billion-dollar grossing films are sequels, Disney remakes, and iconic franchises such as Star Wars, Avatar, James Bond, The Lord of the Rings, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter, The Fast & The Furious, Jurassic Park, The Dark Knight, Transformers and Disney and Pixar toons.
Here’s a look at the 60 films that have achieved this remarkable box office milestone.
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1. AVATAR, 2009 – $2,923,710,708
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved/Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by James Cameron; starring Zoe Saldana & Sam Worthington; released in 2009
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2. AVENGERS: ENDGAME, 2019 – $2,799,439,100
Image Credit: Walt Disney/Marvel Studios /Everett Collection Directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo; starring Scarlett Johansson, Danai Gurira, Don Cheadle, Brie Larson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Karen Gillan, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner and Paul Rudd
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3. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, 2022 – $2,343,477,301
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by James Cameron; voice cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Jamie Flatters, Britain Dalton and Sam Worthington
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4. TITANIC, 1997 – $2,264,812,968
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film/Everett Collection. Directed by James Cameron; starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
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5. NE ZHA 2, 2025 – $2,150,000,000
Image Credit: CMC Pictures Directed by Yang Yu aka Jiaozi; featuring the voices of Joseph and Mo Han
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*Estimated box office based on exchange rates
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6. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, (aka STAR WARS: EPISODE VII – THE FORCE AWAKENS), 2015 – $$2,071,310,218
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Lucasfilm Ltd./Everett Collection Directed by J.J. Abrams; starring John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow
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7. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, 2018 – $2,052,415,039
Image Credit: Marvel /Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures /Everett Collection Directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo; starring Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan
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8. SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, 2021 – $1,921,426,073
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing / Marvel Entertainment / Everett Collection Directed by Jon Watts; starring Zendaya and Tom Holland
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9. ZOOTOPIA 2, 2025 – $1.703 Mil
Image Credit: Disney Directed by Jared Bush & Byron Howard; starring of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Straithairn, Shakira, Idris Elba, Patrick Warburtno and Quinta Brunson
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10. INSIDE OUT 2, 2024 – $1,698,863,816
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Kelsey Mann and Meg LeFauve; featuring the voices of Amy Poehler and Maya Hawke
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11. JURASSIC WORLD, 2015 – $1,671,537,444
Image Credit: Universal Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Colin Trevorrow; starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins and Judy Greer
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12. THE LION KING, 2019 – $1,662,020,819
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by Jon Favreau; featuring the voices of John Oliver, JD McCrary, Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen and Chiwetel Ejiofor
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13. THE AVENGERS, 2012 – $1,520,538,536
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Joss Whedon; starring Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo
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14. FURIOUS 7, 2015 – $1,515,342,457
Image Credit: Scott Garfield/©Universal Directed by James Wan; starring Vin Diesel, Dominic Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham
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15. TOP GUN: MAVERICK, 2022 – $1,495,696,292
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by Joseph Kosinski; starring Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller and Val Kilmer
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16. FROZEN II, 2019 – $1,453,683,476
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee; featuring the voices Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell
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17. BARBIE, 2023 – $1,446,938,421
Image Credit: Warner Bros. / Everett Collection Directed by Greta Gerwig; starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
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18. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, 2015 – $1,405,018,048
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Joss Whedon; starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Linda Cardellini, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson
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19. THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE, 2023 – $1,360,879,735
Image Credit: Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc and Fabien Polack; featuring the voices Chris Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy
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20. BLACK PANTHER, 2018 – $1,349,926,083
Image Credit: Marvel / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures /Everett Collection Directed by Ryan Coogler; starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis
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21. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2, 2011 – $1,342,505,340
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Directed by David Yates; starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
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22. DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (aka DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE, aka DEADPOOL 3), 2024 – $1,338,073,645
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Directed by Shawn Levy; starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
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23. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, (aka STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII – THE LAST JEDI), 2017 – $1,334,407,706
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Lucasfilm Ltd. /Everett Collection Directed by Rian Johnson; starring John Boyega, Gwendoline Christie, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio del Toro
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25. FROZEN, 2013 – $1,310,530,830
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee; featuring the voices of Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad
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25. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM, 2018 – $1,308,566,455
Image Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by J.A. Bayona; starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall & Justice Smith
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26. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 2017 – $1,266,115,964
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by Bill Condon; starring Dan Stevens, Emma Watson, Luke Evans and Josh Gad
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27. INCREDIBLES 2, 2018 – $1,243,225,667
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett Collection Directed by Brad Bird; featuring the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Huck Milner and Sarah Vowell
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28. AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH – $1,241,756,827
Image Credit: 20th Century Studios. $1,241,756,827
Films That Have Earned Over One Billion Dollars at the Box Office
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29. THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS, 2017 – $1,236,009,236
Image Credit: Matt Kennedy. ©Universal Studios/Everett Collection Directed by F. Gary Gray; starring Michelle Rodriguez, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Scott Eastwood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron
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30. IRON MAN 3, 2013 – $1,215,577,205
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Shane Black; starring Robert Downey Jr.
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31. MINIONS, 2015 – $1,159,457,503
Image Credit: Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin; featuring the voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton and Allison Janney
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32. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, 2016 – $1,155,046,416
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo; starring Chris Evans
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33. AQUAMAN, 2018 – $1,152,028,393
Image Credit: Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection Directed by James Wan; starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard and Willem Dafoe
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34. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, 2003 – $1,139,431,705
Image Credit: New Line/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Peter Jackson; starring Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis and Sean Astin
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35. SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, 2019 – $1,132,723,226
Image Credit: Jay Maidment/Columbia Pictures/Marvel /courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Jon Watts; starring Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya and Samuel L. Jackson
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36. CAPTAIN MARVEL, 2019 – $1,131,416,446
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Marvel/Everett Collection Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck; starring Brie Larson
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37. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, 2011 – $1,123,794,079
Image Credit: Jamie Trueblood/Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Michael Bay; starring Shia LeBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Josh Duhamel
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38. SKYFALL, 2012 – $1,108,594,137
Image Credit: Francois Duhamel/Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Sam Mendes; starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes
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39. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, 2014 – $1,105,261,713
Image Credit: Industrial Light & Magic/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Michael Bay; starring Bingbing Li, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg
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40. JURASSIC PARK, 1993 – $1,103,096,466
Image Credit: Murray Close/Universal Studios/Everett Collection Directed by Steven Spielberg; Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough
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41. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, 2012 – $1,085,199,115
Image Credit: Ron Phillips/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collect Directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale and Tom Hardy
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42. JOKER, 2019 – $1,078,958,629
Image Credit: Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros./Everett Collection Directed by Todd Phillips; starring Joaquin Phoenix
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43. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, (aka STAR WARS: EPISODE IX), 2019 – $1,077,022,372
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Lucasfilm/Everett Collection Directed by J.J. Abrams; starring Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac as and John Boyega
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44. TOY STORY 4, 2019 – $1,073,841,394
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture /Everett Collection Directed by Josh Cooley; featuring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, Blake Clark, Jeff Pidgeon, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff Garlin, Kristen Schaal and Timothy Dalton
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45. TOY STORY 3, 2010 – $1,067,316,101
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Lee Unkrich; featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen
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46. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST, 2006 – $1,066,179,747
Image Credit: Walt Disney Directed by Gore Verbinski; starring Johnny Depp
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47. MOANA 2, 2024 – $1,059,242,164
Image Credit: Disney Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller; starring Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Hualālai Chung, Rose Matafeo and David Fane
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48. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, 2016 – $1,058,684,742
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Lucasfilm Ltd. /Everett Collection Directed by Gareth Edwards; starring Felicity Jones and Diego Luna
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49. ALADDIN, 2019 – $1,054,304,000
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Directed by Guy Ritchie; starring Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott and Will Smith
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50. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, 2011 – $1,046,721,266
Image Credit: Peter Mountain/Walt Disney Pictures/verett Collection Directed by Rob Marshall; starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz
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51. STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE, 1999 – $1,046,515,409
Image Credit: Everett Collection Directed by George Lucas; starring Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson, Jake Lloyd and Ewan McGregor
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52. LILO & STITCH, 2025 – $1,038,027,526
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp; starring
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53. DESPICABLE ME 3, 2017 – $1,034,800,131
Image Credit: Universal Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin; featuring the voice of Steve Carell
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54. FINDING DORY, 2016 – $1,029,266,989
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Andrew Stanton; featuring the voice of Ellen DeGeneres
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55. HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE, 2001 – $1,028,496,499
Image Credit: Everett Collection Directed by Chris Columbus; starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
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56. ZOOTOPIA, 2016 – $1,025,521,689
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore; featuring the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman
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57. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, 2010 – $1,025,468,216
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Tim Burton; starring Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp
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58. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, 2012 – $1,017,453,991
Image Credit: James Fisher/Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Directed by Peter Jackson; starring William Kircher, Graham McTavish, Martin Freeman, James Nesbitt and John Callen
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59. THE DARK KNIGHT, 2008 – $1,008,294,632
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Directed by Christopher Nolan; starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger
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60. JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION, (aka JURASSIC WORLD 3), 2022 – $1,001,978,080
Image Credit: John Wilson/Universal Pictures/Everett Collection Directed by Colin Trevorrow; starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Isabella Sermon and DeWanda Wise
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